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Definition of Disasters
1. disaster [n] - See also: disaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disasters
Literary usage of Disasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1866)
"DURING the year 1865, disasters .have been reported at New to 1490 vessels ...
It will be seen from the following statement that the total disasters exceed ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"He was a Gentleman of a very fair Character, and is very much lamented by all
that knew him. All disasters now Attributed to the South Sea. AJ, Jan. 14. ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"This matter of defined courses, out and home, stands first in importance in
discussing the preventives of grave ocean disasters. ..."
4. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"comparison between the disasters of 1882 and those of 1868. ... That year has
opened with disasters, at which we can now glance only imperfectly, ..."
5. A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the by Justin McCarthy (1881)
"THE disasters OF CABUL. THE earliest days of the Peel Ministry fell upon trouble,
not indeed at home, but abroad. At home the prospect still seemed bright. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1833)
"A History of Shipwrecks and disasters at Sea, from the most authentic Sources.
Vol. 78, of Constable's Miscellany. In 2 vols. London, Whittaker & Co. ..."
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